Is it ever worth having Hard L/R pitchers?

[Roscodog]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2005/playoffs/team.html?stats=sim

championship team

[doctrcpa]

Rosco - your link does not work.

[teepack]

I have Jon Leicester on my latest 2005 team. About halfway through the season, he has faced 118 batters - 61 righties and 57 lefties. I have clicked to avoid lefthanded batter and, usually, quick hook, but HAL always seems to leave him in to face some lefties.

I have tried a 6-man bullpen with specialists before, relief use set to aggressive, etc. but HAL just doesn't seem to manage them right. My lefty killers always face too many righties, and vice versa. That's why I've started to look for balanced relievers.

[bleacher_creature]

That's weird teepack. I wonder why it works sometimes and not others?

Some guys he'll use perfectly, like Politte, who often faces one batter with the settings you described, and that is exactly why I'm paying the man $.50M per year. 8)

You gotta love a middle reliever, slight reverse, for anywhere from $.75M to $3M who eats innings 5 thru 7+, with an ERA under 3.50.

I will never be wary of spending $10M on my pen. As long as the pen is deep, and you have some studs mixed with cheap specialists.

It is weird though how HAL can't use some guys right. I had R. Ortiz on the team mainly to be a 2nd hard lefty in a pinch, and HAL [b:1d17902066]REFUSED[/b:1d17902066] to use him at all, despite the proper settings.

[ANDYCOCHRANE]

Bleacher, how did you get such good stats from Brower, Pollitte etc when they faced as many batters on their bad side as they did against their good? What seting did you have them on?

[bleacher_creature]

[quote:f651c3ec08="Shankly 81"]Bleacher, how did you get such good stats from Brower, Pollitte etc when they faced as many batters on their bad side as they did against their good? What seting did you have them on?[/quote:f651c3ec08]

Politte-

avoid left
quick
max 1-2

Brower-

avoid left
quick
max 2-3

Some of this is attributable to Safeco I'm sure. The numbers of lefties came from the rare occasions where the team needed some innings. I played a lot of extra inning games with this team.

Due to Benitez I believe, I won a lot of close games. Look at my run differential - it sucks.

Anyway, a reliever might do better specializing in games THAT COUNT, but without pen depth, end up being left in for a good old fashion country asss-whoopin more often. In this case their numbers might look inflated, or worse than they really were when the games counted.

No one on this team was ever set to mop up.

[MARCPELLETIER]

Just to clarify: I often say that your bullpen must be loaded in order to make your specialists effective.

In fact, what you need is deep pitching.

A team in the Final tour has Sheets, Zambrano, Schilling, and Garcia, in Petco.

He has 5 relievers, but given his SP rotation, they don't come often, so his bullpen is always fresh and deep.

Marte has faced 34 hitters in 51 games: 25 lefties and 9 rhp.

[Roscodog]

not sure how to make my link work but the team I tried to post had an 8 Man bullpen (4 starters)

Isringhausen
Cruz
Embree
Graves
Riske
Lima
Walker
Leicester

Walker's #'s
IP-39.2
H- 36
R- 9
BB-7
SO-31
ERA-2.05
WHIP-.83

Leicester's #'s
51.1
52
26
12
48
4.57
1.25